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Canvas Print of Paper Coral.

28 Monday Nov 2016

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I  have had a canvas print made of this paper coral photograph. The size is 30 x 40 cm. I want to see how this looks but ideally I would like a larger print made. I also want to experiment with the idea of creating a box light. img_20161128_104301

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Maybe One More #Obsessed

26 Saturday Nov 2016

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Designing and Marketing with a conscience

26 Saturday Nov 2016

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Thought provoking blog, well worth a read.

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Asking myself some deep questions, what do I think “Branding” my creations should mean to my potential customers and me.

If an effective brand strategy gives you a major edge in increasingly competitive markets. What exactly does “branding” mean?

I believe that there are some very well thought out strategies in the market place with regard to “Branding” and “Marketing” your creations. But If your brand is your promise to your customer, and tells them what they can expect from you your product and services, how should it differentiate your contribution from that of your competitors.

It is my strong belief that your brand is derived from who you are, you want to be and who people perceive you to be.

In an emergent world of consumerism, do we just want to make money or are our intentions deeper than that? After all we are creators of amazing designs…

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Further Work With Coral.

25 Friday Nov 2016

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I have been continuing to make casts of my coral light in an effort to refine it.ae4836b3e12a3374232ef27c4f2ce9f9

 

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I want to make some in different heights.

I am also going to make some in different materials to see if they work better. The material needs to be transparent or translucent so light passes through it.

I made some moulds, using fired ceramic, coral-impressed slabs. I am going to use these to make resin coral slabs.

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I made rubber moulds to cast the resin into.

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My Inspiration Behind My Work With Corals: The Rose, Jay Defeo.

25 Friday Nov 2016

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Long before I began using coastal landscapes and sea life as inspiration I was inspired by The Rose by Jay Defoe and the story surrounding it.

I began working with my own ‘ray’ pictures and artefacts. This was what led me to coral. I totally understand the obsession as I also got caught up in it.

If you don’t know the story, read it!

There is a lot of information on the internet.

Here are some images…

The coloured one is another work entitled The Jewel. I’m unsure whether this is a separate work or one of the stages of The Rose. It went through many changes over the years, including its title.

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Photographs of Paper Coral.

25 Friday Nov 2016

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I made a paper coral by ripping paper and wiring together.

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I then photographed the maquette and experimented with altering the photographs.

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I added small lights, intertwined with the paper.

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These are the different effects I got by photographing with the lights.

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Paper Coral Maquette – Obsession-Jay DeFeo/The Rose.

25 Friday Nov 2016

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I made a paper maquette of a coral to experiment with different ways of creating lights.

The maquette is made of ripped paper, wired together.

I added lights, intertwined with the paper.

I started photographing the maquette and playing around with Photoshop. I got some amazing results.

The photos reminded me of The Rose by Jay DeFeo.

I have been obsessed with The Rose for years, as was Jay DeFeo.

This is the story.

‘Civilization,” Gertrude Stein says, “begins with a rose.” And also: “It continues with blooming and it fastens clearly upon excellent examples.”

You understand what she means when you stand before Jay DeFeo’s massive painting The Rose, a two-ton, twelve-feet-tall canvas sculpted in oil, wood, and mica, a bold burst of grisaille. At the Whitney Museum of Art, where the work is part of the permanent collection, it hangs like an altarpiece, the focal point of a retrospective of DeFeo’s art.

The Rose was nearly a decade in the making: it is art as uncannily beautiful obsession/compulsion. By the time DeFeo had to leave the San Francisco studio where she had been working on the painting, it had become too large to be carried through the door, requiring the removal of a window and the use of a forklift. (The Whitney is screening THE WHITE ROSE, Bruce Connor’s short film documenting that process, as part of the retrospective.)

Part of the 1950s West Coast counterculture, DeFeo was there when Allen Ginsberg read Howl for the first time. (Her husband, the artist Wally Hedrick, was one of the founders of the Six Gallery, the site of Howl’s debut.) In some ways, her work echoed the Beats: The Rose, in its making, is one continuous poem, bound up with the artist’s body no less than Ginsberg’s long poem, which takes the writer’s breath as the singular measure of its lines.

At first, it was called Deathrose. DeFeo began working on the painting in 1958 and did not stop until eight years later. The name change might be taken as suggestion that The Rose came alive, ceased, in the course of its development, to speak to death, or, more precisely, to death alone. At least some of the interest of the work—of DeFeo’s oeuvre as a whole—lies in the way it excavates the territory between Eros and Thanatos. The rose is, in Greek mythology, associated with Aphrodite, who is often shown with roses garlanding her hair. It is the flower that most readily stands in for the female body, for female sexuality. But DeFeo’s Rose is not the bloom of purity, not the blush of first desire. It is more vagina dentata, an alluring but dangerous trap, a pleasure and a menace.

It is easy, looking at this monumental painting, to imagine just how DeFeo came to be so relentlessly committed to it. You cannot simply walk past it, cannot cast a passing glance. The Rose demands attention. DeFeo worked on it every day, adding and scraping paint away, then doing it again, over and over and over. It was her Moby-Dick, her Godot.

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Except no, that’s not quite right. She finished the seemingly interminable project, and she kept working, despite a period of dissolute depression that followed the demise of her marriage, the sinking of her art-world fortunes, the excessive drinking, the bout of gum disease. The Whitney show triumphantly speaks to her prolific imagination, her abundance of technique. The Rose, with its built-in mythology, its gargantuan ambition and stunning payoff, hogs the limelight, but other, smaller works also shine.

DeFeo is the sort of artist who could and did use an old dental bridge as a starting point for a series of works that casts it as a half-whimsical, half-heartbreaking shape-shifter. In Study for a Crescent Bridge (my model…out of my own head!) (1971), the bridge resembles an alien spaceship. In Traveling Portrait (Chance Landscape) (1973), a photo collage—a medium DeFeo used often and well—the bridge clones itself haphazardly, producing a strange mountain range, which resembles, from certain angles, a pile of buttocks. And in September Blackberries (1973), rendered in synthetic polymer, the bridge is abstracted and remade into a peculiar bowl of fruit, lavishly baroque cornucopia replaced by angular monochrome.

In these pieces, DeFeo amalgamates technical mastery with a keen wit, humor that is often at her own expense. A suite of gelatin silver prints makes use of cauliflower heads, sumptuously presented on silver salvers. As still lives, these are amusing. But as a self-referential joke, a cabbage standing in for a rose, these are smart and sardonic and strangely powerful. (A 1975 mixed-media piece makes the joke more explicit: it is entitled Cabbage Rose.)

It is perhaps tempting to read into DeFeo’s work a protest or a critique. As a female artist working in the sixties and seventies and eighties, she must have experienced terrible frustration as her male peers garnered acclaim and her own art went relatively ignored. The Sisyphean aspect of The Rose turned out to relate not to its completion but to its visibility. The painting deteriorated for years behind a false wall at the San Francisco Art Institute, covered in plaster, unseen. It became an urban legend of sorts, a mythical rumor. It was consigned to a kind of living death. In her catalog essay, the curator Dana Miller likens this fate to Sleeping Beauty’s; the Whitney played Prince Charming, kissing the painting back to life by having it restored, secured with a new backing able to bear its load of paint and other materials, and exhibiting it in 1995.

DeFeo’s early works—many dating from an especially prolific period in the 1950s when, during a postcollege summer sojourn in Florence, she turned out more than two hundred works in the course of three months—make use of color, particularly a vivid red. As her palatte became progressively more muted (though the red returns in occasional bursts in late works, like Geisha I [1987]), her aesthetic became more refined. The works have a subtlety; they speak in a whisper, in hushed tones. But the story they tell is terrifically compelling.

Some of the most compelling moments in that story unfold in photographs of DeFeo in front of her work. Some of the pictures were taken by DeFeo’s friend the assemblage artist Wallace Berman: the most striking of these images show a naked DeFeo posed against The Rose, recreating da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. But the pose also suggests the Crucifixion, in what is perhaps a sly nod to how much the work demanded of her. But, as the Whitney retrospective demonstrates, DeFeo resurrected herself, making work more than twenty years following The Rose’s completion.

DeFeo died in 1989, at the age of sixty. She worked until the very end, the scale of the art smaller, but the compositions no less thoughtful, no less lovely. In a photograph taken after she had begun a course of chemotherapy following her lung cancer diagnosis, DeFeo sits in front of one of her paintings. Her hair is gone, her eyes closed. But her posture is ramrod straight, determined. She’s not going anywhere.

As a starting point with my obsession/Rose/Coral, I share my photos in my next post.

 

 

Social Media

24 Thursday Nov 2016

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Social Media is important to promote your business and artwork.

Regular posts on different social media sites will reach a wider audience, as will comments on other people’s posts.

Blogs are a really good way to keep people’s interest as they can watch work develop and understand your process.

I have a website and also use Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram as well as this WordPress site. I have two Facebook sites. One is a normal site where I share things with friends and family and the other is an Artist Facebook site. The artist site is public and I promote it through my personal site. The two are linked.

To promote an artist site costs money but by linking it and sharing posts I can reach an audience. I also ask people to share my posts. fb_img_1480013895372I use the cover, profile and name of my artist site as a cover photo on my personal site to give a visual link in addition to the text link.

Coral inspired ceramic light.

18 Friday Nov 2016

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Using a top and bottom impression of a coral I made a model to cast a mould from.

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Both models for casting.

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Plaster mould.

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After plaster had set I turned it out and took the clay out. There was some clay left in but i didn’t want to risk damaging the mould so I will slip cast a model to pull out any remaining clay before casting a bone china model.

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Vitra Project.

12 Saturday Nov 2016

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After looking at shells as a starting point I also looked at other sea-related artefacts. I have some corals that I have collected.

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The underside has a very different texture to the top.

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By looking at a side view you can see how it is a dome shape.

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I made some clay casts of the textures, both full casts and partial casts.

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These are the full casts.You can clearly see the difference in the textures of the top and the bottom.

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Close-up of textures.

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I made a circular tile of each texture.

I also experimented with impressing the textures and dragging the clay to stretch it.

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I made some other tests, stretching the clay further.

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I really like the distortion in this one.

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I also made some tests creating the textures to mimic a coral by hand.23bc61ae3ad2e4a42331e0a137483cb8

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